Neil Young Quotes


Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.


Citations

Young, Neil. Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters. Edited by Arthur Lizie, Chicago Review Press, 2012.

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This quotation illustrates a political phenomenon that used to be common in American politics—the spoils system where government activities, positions, contracts and grants were awarded to the supporters of the winning party and not to the opponents. In modern times government contracts were supposed to have been awarded on the basis of qualifications and price and not conditioned on political support. In this rare quotation, the secretary admitted to violating his own Department’s regulations and using politics as a criteria where existing laws prohibited that.


Neil Young
Neil Young
  • Born: November 12, 1945
  • Nationality: Canadian
  • Profession: Singer-songwriter, Musician, Filmmaker, Activist, Humanitarian

Neil Percival Young OC OM is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist. After embarking on a music career in the 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Since the beginning of his solo career with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has released many critically acclaimed and important albums, such as After the Gold Rush, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and Harvest.